Dawnstorm

This is where I think we're talking past each other. First, this is not how I used P1 and P2. Before the duplication event there was one person P. Aft...

They share a history. This is something no legal system is equipped to handle. If I do something, I'm liable for it, no? I'm not legal expert. Person ...

As a hobby SF writer (in the past), I disagree. In fact, there are issues to figure out that more pressing than body-soul dualism. For example, here: ...

That's an interesting book. "How God Becomes Real," sounds like a great title to describe what I'm interested in, too. Thanks for that.

Your speech act doesn't cover all of its requirements under speech act theory. There are two possibilities I see here: You yell across the crowd at so...

It's partly because I misread you. For some reason, I thought you suggested "confidence" instead of "faith", when you just had a question because some...

Like @Tom Storm, I'm someone who doesn't usually use the word faith, unless it's a religious context, and even then usually only when a believer bring...

The word that doesn't appear in above post, and whose token count is zero, is "armadillo". While typing the above post I did something with the word "...

This is how I roughly read you: There are no words. You do things with a keyboard. Now there are words. Now other people can do things with words. I t...

I just want to say that I find these last two posts very interesting, but I'm not sure I fully understand. I just deleted a post of mine (before posti...

Yeah, I made a mistake, there. Either "< 3" or "<= 2" (if there's such an operation in python, which I don't know) instead of "<2". Makes perfect sens...

Well, when you wrote that program that's how you interpret "counting". You chose not include the initial value in the count; if you'd performed the pr...

I think that's wrong, and I'm replying not so much to correct you but to demonstrate the difference between the locution and the illocution: The quest...

Ah, I missed that. I'll need some time to think (primarily, if I can construct a coherent theory of change and time based on what you've said).

I'm not sure it's valid. I see a conflict of scope in the way "nothing" is used (you've made a post somewhere pretty much addressing this). Let me mak...

As a string of words not entirely devoid of meaning, I can do logic with it to some degree, but I can't connect it to the world I like in. It's an int...

This is, I think, where I differ most with you. I certainly withhold judgement, but not because I'm doing any considering. I don't care about the ques...

Neither do I. I'm not sure what in my post made you think I did. For example, the "as far as" in the line quoted was meant as a limit to similarity. I...

Well, the point of the p-zombie thought experiment is to figure out what phenomenal experience does, if anything. If I understand epiphenomenalism rig...

Yeah, I probably both picked a bad example (too complex), and didn't phrase my question properly. Basically, I was asking about your intuition; in thi...

Ah, I see what you were referring to now. I think of those "things" as words. I mean if I recognise the word cat when spoken as the same word when wri...

I'm not sure what "those" refers to. My post is definitely full of words.

Yes, that's a way communication can misfire; we have different "internal dictionaries". My first, intuitive, reading of the thread title took "word-fo...

Yeah, I've read this. I guess I shouldn't have posted. (I'm still confused about the meaningfulness of "68" from a quus-centric world-view, but that m...

Do they? What about 68 + 1? I mean 68 is the outcome of, say, 30 + 38. I need to do addition to be able to do quaddition; I don't need to be able to d...

I'm about half a century old, but this is mostly about... environmental hazard? I do start feeling the wear and tear.

I agree with the spirit of this (I think), but I also think it's analytically useful to keep the meaning of the utterance and the meaning of the sente...

There's always an alternative.

I find this quote on Wikipedia: "Some jacks-in-the-box open at random times..." I'd call wikipedia a popular page. But, well, you (or anyone really) c...

This thread could in theory lead to a discussion about what grammar is. I come from linguistics, and I've often felt confused about how philosophers u...

Irregularities may have been regularities in earlier languages, or in other languages. Many irregular verbs would likely have been regular had their r...

It's sort of hard to pinpoint. I've never cared much about my gender, but at the same time I've never doubted that I'm a boy/man. It's always seemed t...

At first reading this seemed downright nonsensensical to me. I'm not part of trans communities, but whenever I came across transpeople talking about t...

This is messing with my head. I tried to reply but couldn't get a coherent post going.

Yeah, I agree. I was being sloppy here. (I've discarded a much longer post, where I went into more detail, both before and after I mentioned grades.) ...

How do you get 1? How do you interpret P(Questioned)? I get 3/4. There are two variables (Coin and Day), and two checks, for four outcomes altogether,...

Well, we could look at school grades as an ordinal scale to measure knowledge retained until test time. We have the institution of grading, the syllab...

I come from a sociology background; this sounds rather... mundane? Quantifying innumerable things is what sociologists have always done. But they don'...

Well, Chomsky's mainly concerned with syntax, not semantics. (I'm aware that the distinction is not unproblematic.) That I sometimes don't know how to...

Now there's an interesting link. I've always been confused about why people think language and thought are tied together as much as they seem to think...

I can see that. I'm not sure I fully agree; I'll need to think some more. I might have made progress by the time the topic comes around next. This, th...

The intersection between first person experience and neurobehaviour. I don't think I was begging the question. (I was re-reading my post and a wikiped...

No, I think by the time you're arbitrating between evolution or alternatives, you've already resolved the problem, or put it on hold. It's no longer r...

That's... muddying the water even further. I feel obliged to bring up the word "secular" here. And the secular isn't... exactly antithetical to the re...

If you view it like this... I think it's in the nature of atheism to be "less successful" (interpreted as evolutionary success) than theism. I mean, i...

I've been looking for a word to use that fits better than "belief". The best I could come up with was "impression". The concept could be incoherent in...

Sometimes it doesn't. It's not necessarily a problem if you don't believe but like the concept. You can just get something out of your religion of aff...

It's not a belief. Anything I can't make sense of is nonsense to me. Once I try to understand a concept I sometimes make progress. With God it's a ran...

Ah, see, that's already a step too far for me. That's what I mean by flytrap: the moment I say "God doesn't exist," I get tangled up in a conversation...

Hm, I remember when The God Delusion hit the shelves. I knew of it before I ever saw a physical copy, so I was curious when I finally cam across one a...